Kavita v0.3 - The "Main Driver" Release

With this release I can now ditch Ubooquity - my previous manga server of choice - with Kavita for all my reading needs. I would consider this as a full release with manga being it's primary focus over standard comic books. That being said, Kavita has a long road ahead filled with a host of new feature possibilities, like Book support, or proper metadata support.

The change log is as follows (plus many other things I probably forgot):

• Image loading and Caching has been completely rewritten. Caching during manga reading is now super fast, you will forget you're reading over a network connection. Almost all images in the app are now lazy loaded with caching done by the browser
• Archive Support has been expanded to include RAR and many other various zipping formats thanks to using SharpCompress
• You can now access context menus from series detail page
• There is now pagination on series detail view, defaulting to 30 series per page
• ComicInfo.xml from within your archives will now populate the summary field on series during library scan
• You can now correct and fix matches on parsed series. e.g. Did Kavita think "One-Punch Man" was "One-Punch Men"? Correct it and future scans will ensure it parses as One-Punch Man
• You can now edit series metadata in the app + write your own review
• You can now search and navigate to any series from anywhere in the app
• Complete UX overhaul for better support on phone, tablet, or PC

Kavita v0.2

This was a fairly large release. This release originally was aimed at stabilizing and testing against a real library. During this, a ton of bugs were found that led to a complete rewrite to the DB structure and Scanning code. This helped Kavita have not only a more flexible structure, but improved matching and large speed ups.

This release delivers the following:

• Stability & Bug fixes
• Ability to configure server settings
• Ability to scheduler re-occurring Tasks
• Ability to mark a whole volume/chapter as read/unread
• Ability to reset user logins
• Ability to search library for items a user has access to
• Ability to log to file with rolling backups
• Ability to have user preferences reflect throughout app
• Ability to split full spread manga pages
• A full responsive pass-through on the app

Currently only building for Windows, create an issue if you want other OS builds.

Kavita v0.1

First release of Kavita. This release is more of a milestone than a proper release (although you can actually use server). This release allows for:

• User creation with Roles (admin/non-admin)
• Role based access to Libraries
• Segregation of Manga in different Libraries for whatever your needs
• Ability to rate manga
• Ability to track read progress
• Ability to read archive-based manga (cbz, cbr, zip)
• Ability to scan libraries ad-hoc
• Cache management
• Ability to read manga (no split page support)

While a lot was accomplished, a lot of the work is preliminary. This is the foundation for the next releases and polishing efforts.